U.S. farmers helped make the German P.O.W's lives more bareable, because of one thing, COMPASSION Had they been Italian P.O.W's., they would have been treated the same way. Sadly, in today's world we no longer posess, nor practice this precious gift . " A gentile man with a beard tried to teach us this over 2000 years ago, but unfortunatly it is not being practiced much any more. " My father gave a cigarette to a Japanese prisoner on the island of Saipan during w.w.2, & was ostracized by his fellow Marines for it. This act , to me, is what really seperates the men from the boys ! Charles Parcels < Weibert aus Messer > --------------------------------- Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.